ORLANDO, FL On Sunday night, January 31, 2016, the Central Florida Expressway Authority (CFX) will stop collecting tolls at the State Road 528 (Martin B. Andersen Beachline Expressway) Airport Plaza to begin demolition of the plaza. At that time a new, combined tolling structure will be in place. The CFX State Road 528 Airport Plaza tolls will be collected by Florida’s Turnpike Enterprise (FTE) at its Beachline West Main Plaza, or by CFX at four new ramp plazas.
The plaza’s removal and consolidated collection of tolls on State Road 528 will provide visitors and community members with enhanced convenience, safety and a better, more efficient travel experience. CFX’s long developing plans to remove the plaza have been widely supported by motorists and Central Florida’s business community and tourism industry.
Currently, more than 75,000 vehicles a day travel through the State Road 528 Airport Plaza, making it the second busiest plaza on CFX’s 109-mile expressway system. Opening in 1983, it is also CFX’s oldest plaza and the only one that does not feature Express Lanes. Once underway, the Airport Plaza demolition will take approximately six weeks to complete. Work on this project began in November 2014 and is scheduled to finish in summer 2016.
Because “roads don’t stop at county lines,” the Central Florida Expressway Authority’s jurisdiction includes Lake, Orange, Osceola and Seminole Counties. CFX is responsible for the construction, maintenance and operation of a 109-mile limited-access expressway system. It may also acquire, construct and equip rapid transit, trams and fixed guideways within its rights-of-way. CFX’s system includes State Road 408 (Spessard Holland East-West Expressway), State Road 528 (Martin Andersen Beachline Expressway), State Road 417 (Central Florida GreeneWay), State Road 429 (Daniel Webster Western Beltway), State Road 414 (John Land Apopka Expressway) and State Road 451.